Location from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
The heartland of the Union — rich farmland and industry feeding an empire that's rotting from the inside, where the gap between the lords and the workers widens with every generation.
Midderland is the Union's breadbasket and its factory floor. The wealth it produces flows to Adua's aristocracy while the workers who produce it live in conditions that make revolution inevitable. Valbeck — the industrial city where the Breaker uprising begins — sits in Midderland like an infected wound on the body of the Union.
Rolling agricultural land, industrial towns, and the Union's road network connecting everything to Adua. By the Age of Madness, factories and mills scar the landscape alongside the fields. The countryside is productive and increasingly exploited.
Also known as: Midderland